Buddhist and Islamic orders in southern Asia comparative perspectives

This volume aims to foster interaction between scholars in the subfields of Islamic and Buddhist studies by increasing understanding of the circulation and localization of religious texts, institutional models, and ritual practices across Asia and beyond. Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia...

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Other Authors: Blackburn, Anne M. (Editor), Feener, R. Michael (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu University of Hawaiʻi Press 2019, [2019]©2019
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Sufis and saṅgha in motion : toward a comparative study of religious orders and networks in southern Asia / Anne M. Blackburn and R. Michael Feener
  • ʻAbdallāh born ʻUmar ibn Yaḥyā and the Ṭarīqa ʻAlawiyya in the early-nineteenth-century Indonesian archipelago / Ismail Fajrie Alatas
  • The itineraries of "Sīhaḷa Monk" Sāralaṅkā : Buddhist interactions in eighteenth-century southern Asia / Alexey Kirichenko
  • Challenging orders: Ṭarīqas and Muslim society in southeastern India and Laṅkā, ca. 1400-1950 / Torsten Tschacher
  • Whose orders? : Chinese popular god temple networks and the rise of Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhist monasteries in Southeast Asia / Kenneth Dean
  • Sufi "orders" in Southeast Asia : from private devotions to social network and corporate action / Martin van Bruinessen
  • Shaṭṭāriyya Sufi scents : the literary world of the Surakarta Palace in nineteenth-century Java / Nancy K. Florida
  • Negotiating order in the land of the dragon and the hidden valley of rice : local motives and regional networks in the transmission of new "Tibetan" Buddhist lineages in Bhutan and Sikkim / Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa
  • Includes bibliographical references and index